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Chuvanskoye

Chuvanskoye (English)
Чуванское (Russian)
-  Rural locality  -
Selo
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Location of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Russia
Chuvanskoye is located in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chuvanskoye
Chuvanskoye
Location of Chuvanskoye in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Coordinates: 65°13′N 167°58′E / 65.217°N 167.967°E / 65.217; 167.967Coordinates: 65°13′N 167°58′E / 65.217°N 167.967°E / 65.217; 167.967
Administrative status (as of June 2009)
Country Russia
Federal subject Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Administrative district Anadyrsky District
Municipal status (as of October 2010)
Municipal district Anadyrsky Municipal District
Rural settlement Chuvanskoye Rural Settlement
Administrative center of Chuvanskoye Rural Settlement
Statistics
Population (2010 Census) 209 inhabitants
Population (January 2016 est.) 188 inhabitants
Time zone PETT (UTC+12:00)
Founded 1930
Postal code(s) 689532
Dialing code(s) +7 42732

Chuvanskoye (Russian: Чуванское) is a rural locality (a selo) in Anadyrsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Russia, located west of Markovo on the banks of the Yeropol River (a tributary of the Anadyr River meaning "place of the Yukaghir games), about 780 km from the mouth of the Anadyr. Population: 209 (2010 Census); with an estimated population as of 1 January 2015 of 188. Municipally, the village is incorporated as Chuvanskoye Rural Settlement.

There are two theories regarding the origin of the name. The first states that Chuvanskoye is simply named after the Chuvans themselves, whereas the second theory suggests that the name is derived from an older tribe, the Cha'achen, who used to live in the area and were a Yukaghir tribe from which the Chukchi themselves eventually developed.

Chuvanskoye was founded in 1930 as a collective farm, which was reorganised in the 1940s as the Chuvanskoye Kolkhoz "Znamya Sovetov" (although other sources suggest the village was not formally established until 1951). In the 1960s the Kolkhoz was merged with the collective farm in Markovo and Lamutskoye to form the "Markovsky State Farm". As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, small villages like Lamutskoye were extremely hard hit. In 2000, the monthly living wage across Chukotka was estimated at R.3,800 however, the average wage in Chuvanskoye was a meagre R.50-100.

Population 209 (2010 Census); a significant reduction on a 2006 estimate of 290, though this represented and increase from 217 reported in 2005 for an environmental impact report for the Kupol gold project. Of the people living in the village in 2005, all of them were of indigenous origin. Chuvanskoye and the lands surrounding it are the main area of settlement in the autonomous okrug for the Chuvans ethnic group, a branch of the Yukaghir people, who lived near the Anadyr River. Almost all the men in the village spend most of their time in the Taiga with their reindeer herds.


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